John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.. American novelist poet short story writer art critic and literary critic
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. Go to Quote / Comment
Lawrence had done it in a way, and Joyce. But I think it's an important thing to do now and then, to describe the sex act as our descent, or adventure, into a primordial or strange world, having very little to do with how we look in suits or what our educations have been. It's a well of darkness, as it were, that leaves you refreshed. Go to Quote / Comment
Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism. Go to Quote / Comment
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being. Go to Quote / Comment
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. Go to Quote / Comment